Help ID please..

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Picked up these guys from Petsmart the other day because they were on sale and I know they weren't any of the fish they had tags for. They were sold to me as a JD and some sort of tropheus. Please excuse the crappy phone pics. Pic #1 and 2 are of same fish.

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1 could be either...

unfaded Midas
Lyonsi
true festae (not mayan, tail spot is too small)

the second fish is a FH, only other fish with markings like that is a trimac, and they are pretty hard to find and never those bright irridescant colours.
 
Stratoquarius said:
1 could be either...

unfaded Midas
Lyonsi
true festae (not mayan, tail spot is too small)

the second fish is a FH, only other fish with markings like that is a trimac, and they are pretty hard to find and never those bright irridescant colours.
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Thanks for the clarification on lyonsi / Mayan - never really got into them so I haven't looked up Id techniques.


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Thanks for your ideas. I was kinda thinking lyonsi or festae for #1 and FH for #2 as well. Thought it was weird to see fish like these guys at a store like that so I picked them up for $7.50. If either turns out to be anything besides what they were sold to me as and not one of the more common cichlids, I will be super happy.
 
I thought it was an unfaded midas, but the second picture makes it look like it has uniform red stripes along the tips of the fins, which is a trait of lyonsi. its most likely just the picture though.
 
well heres my juvenile salvini, doesnt really match
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young male salvinis are very dark with red edging on their fins, but tehy also have the same double black line and upturned mouth shape not found in a midas cichlid
 
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